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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Boy faces $300 fine for lollipop on bus
Personally I chock this up to "If you can't do the time don't do the crime" files. Food is food, candy or burger, something you eat is FOOD. Period.
Should everyone get a "one free pass" as the father of the boy suggested in "Prendiz said his son got no warning before being cited."?
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Boy faces lollipop hearing
Teenager was cited, fined for eating candy on bus
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By City News Service
SANTA CLARITA -- A 14-year-old boy, who originally faced a $300 fine for licking a lollipop on a public bus, pleaded not guilty to the infraction and faces a hearing Monday in Juvenile Court.
A sheriff's deputy on the Santa Clarita Transit bus, who addressed Michael Prendiz as "Candyman," called the youth to the front of the bus and wrote him up under state Penal Code 640b, which affirms ordinances prohibiting eating, drinking or smoking on public buses.
Authorities agreed to reduce the $300 fine to $90, but Michael and his father refused to plead guilty at a hearing last month.
Michael called the case "pretty ridiculous."
His father, Joel Prendiz, said "it's a waste of everyone's time and money, especially the court's."
Prendiz said his son got no warning before being cited.
"I could see if he was eating a hamburger or something on the bus, or if he had a soda can, but to have a sucker in his mouth?" Prendiz said. "They could have said, 'Throw out the candy. If we see you doing something like this again, we're going to cite you."'
Sgt. Jim Morrow of the sheriff's Santa Clarita station defended the deputy who wrote the ticket.
"The fact is, a lollipop is still a food item that's going to end up trashing the bus," he told the Los Angeles Times. "The bus drivers tell them (students) constantly that there's no eating or drinking. They vandalize the seats, scratch graffiti into the seats, take food and basically trash the inside of the bus."
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